We have grey clouds and cold temps.

Georgia, brer cat!

he can just wave a wand and and do what he wants when he wants. He has been excellent on the issues.

I'd do it again!

It seems miraculous that he got elected at all. There's virtually no liberal voices anywhere in the media. Citizens United is gonna hammer Dems from now til doomsday.

I appreciate Obama and he never ceases to amaze and confound his enemies. I'm very glad he's on my side.

course that's not going to work out for everyone.. but, it would be much worse down the road when the gopbaqggers take over Congress. That's something the critics do not take into account, either.

And, I think it was a miracle Obama got elected Prez.. with all the US media drumming manufactured "news" into the airwaves 24/7.. designed to fit their corporate agenda.

Happy New Year, SleeplessinSoCal!

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Were it not for you and this group, DU would be a very cold place.

satisfied everyone's expectations on getting all of their issues passed but we should not expect to get everything "we want". It is like handing a kid a toy catalog and telling them to pick out everything they want and they do and accidently one item was not presented and the kid wails and hates Santa because all the things they listed was not delivered and then refusing to play with the other toys.

I'm glad I voted for him. Also proud I've voted in every election for the most progressive available candidate ever since he took office.

He's a tireless advocate for us. I don't mind some of the criticisms. Wages must improve for people to start feeling the effects of a stronger economy.

As for the more histrionic attacks here, it says more about the critic than the President. It's dirt off my shoulder.

...achieve and how loudly the RW can howl!

Of course there will be some howling here, too, but no matter.

From some posters' hyperbole you'd think race relations today are worse than the 50's, that white people don't care, and that we've got hundreds of African Americans being publicly lynched in the streets daily. Never mind that every incident of white on black crime makes major national headlines, or that in the past 6 years we've overwhelmingly nominated an African-American man for president (with much vitriol against his white primary opponent I might add), and then overwhelmingly elected him twice.

So many want instant gratification! Being productive while battling the 1% machine is remarkable!!
I am grateful each day for Pres. Obama! Had a Repuke been elected it would have been far, far worse!!

throats which negates everything you posted. Life is nice with blinders on isn't it?
Or are your glasses rose colored?
I don't get people like you? Why can't you see all of reality? Why only look at the sunny side of the street? You know we can't make proper decisions unless we include all of the facts even the smelly ones too.
My guess is you so want to believe that guy who ran in 2008 that we all voted for and all that change we hoped for became reality. Well it didn't and that is baring witness to the truth. Sure he had a tough time and accomplished a lot of good but this new trade deal is ten thousand steps backward.

GD is for posts like yours, so take it there.

The trade deal could be very good for the economy, some people use it for their ODS and expect agreement, because they know it's hard for most people to talk about these things and they can demand no questions.

not go to latest threads if you only want people who agree with you. This should be called the "The Only Rosy BOG"

check your left side panel.

Do you even know why you are against this agreement? Is it because you are looking for some support for your already existing dislike of President Obama, and do you have anything better than generalized and unsupported claims that it will cost jobs, etc. If so, start it up in DU where you will find a lively debate of conclusions already existing.

both inaugurations. I got the Obama Family White House Christmas cards every year. You don't get those hating Obama.

I care about this country, our democracy and our people. Ignoring reality is sticking your head in the sand. But I guess you created a place where that isn't important.

You have said nothing detailed about the TPP and made no support for its alleged disasters in this post.

It has been a while since I've been in the BOG. That exchange made it all worthwhile.

Thanks!

every year! ... Really she/he did!

S**T! They got the Christmas card. They are so special.

That gives them the right to come to the BOG and take a crap. Well they got my seal of approval as a bully here. They can go hither and cry to their buddies that they got banned from the BOG. They love it. In GD we are considered BOG SCUM on a Democratic board for supporting this President. Our first black president and we need a group to support him. How sad is that.

1Strong, please stop by more often.

and when I do, I rarely post; but, it is always a good read.

We group here as we need it. Our home. When I first got here,most of my posts were from BOG. I found my voice. I am no longer scared. We post in GD, and fight for our lives at times.

As you know I have posted in AA. I find that to be my home away from home. Another safe haven. I feel safe and I will never wipe my dirty feet there.

whole rest of the board to complain about the President.

yeah, it's Rosy 'cause the President can't be told to STFU here and he can't be called a "******* POS used car salesman". Get Over It.

there is negative shit about him everywhere yet you have a problem with on small group within a larger website being a place for mostly positive things

As a matter of fact, you were the one that told someone to "take it there"..not me.

End of story.

working class LGBT individuals, are tossed into financial hardship so the Wall Street cash hoarding trillionaires can sock away another couple billion at the expense of the working class.

How can you toss aside any further progress on LGBT rights? Especially with this generalized Wall Street talk. It would be better if we got all the money of the rich and LGBT people were marginalized? Your post does not belong in the BOG, but if you put in in GD you'd find yourself flamed for that.

In which case you are getting your cake and eating it too, and I support your right to love anyone in whatever way fulfills you, but I don't support your right to be a bloodsucker on the economy while the rest of us get closer and closer to eating cat food.

You have the usual generalizations of doom, yet the economy is doing better. It is not only the 1% doing better as the usual rantings suggest. If that were happening, people would notice.

given to big banks and wall street traders regarding every manner of economic, political, and prosecutorial cronyism at this late date, I am powerless to inform you.

It does not get anyone anywhere. Even Liz Warren doesn't say this kind of thing. No one cares. As long as people have enough, they don't care how rich a few are.

except for those that think they should have more BECAUSE someone else has more.

Street has managed to interpose itself is being used to strangle the middle class.

From 0% interest savings rates to 29% interest credit card rates, speculation on gas, oil, and food, privatized schools and parks.

The middle class is being squeezed by the special monied interests from every conceivable direction and shamelessly ripping off the middle class has come into vogue. Whether the average person espouses it or even realizes who it is that is making their lives harder and harder is irrelevant. It is happening, irrespective of sexual identity.

That's a DU, internet thing.

Most people in the middle class has retirement in stocks, so they want the stock market to be going up. Don't know how many times I've heard my Dad complain his retirement was "going to hell" whenever the stock market goes down. So far, though, he's never ended up out of his house or living less than average middle class lifestyle.

People who don't have that kind of savings wish they did.

I've never heard a real life person complain that Wall Street is stealing from them. They simply want it to be doing well and for themselves to be doing OK or well.

it means everything in the world.

You can rant and rave about "Wall Street" and "trillionaires" all over the board. But, you can't come into the BOG and try and step all over the accomplishments that have been made and appreciated by millions of Americans.

of their Rights because of the O Admin.

They do and can. You can find about 90 of them in the house, about 10 of them in the Senate, and in myriad governor's mansions and statehouses and city councils and county boards across the country. The question is not whether they can win elections, it is whether the corporate funders of the Democratic party will try to knock them out of presidential primaries by labeling them "extreme" "far out" "not mainstream" etc. etc., like has been done by the MSM to almost every progressive candidate in the presidential primary era.

the msm sets the tone for how president obama is reacting to any particular issue to rile up the democrats.

and the president just steps aside and lets them. then, wham! it is called 'rope a dope' or a very well controlled zen of political strategy. [i.e. the xl pipeline & immigration. and we keep hearing the president is saying this or saying that about the tpp. really? i have yet to hear from his lips state exactly whatever the soup du jour is from msm reports on any given day.]

he is still waiting to hear from us and our legislators ~ because he is listening to ALL of us citizen. when we speak or write or whatever - he is listening and uses this to weigh his final decision. he has yet to really let me down as a voter, a democrat and a woman of color, and an environmentalist.

p.s. and to those who cannot find happiness anywhere - have you written letters to your legislators and the white house to give voice to your concerns other than on here? no matter what msm and gop talking heads want to believe - these communications are critical to our democracy.